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Now that was funny

Wow...don't know what to say about this one...other than in before the lock, that should have come yesterday...
P.S. If this "Guide" did this...jerk his license, boat, rods n reels, then fine the crap outta him...He should be a Potholes Crappie Guide at best...

ouch that one stings abit rog!!!

Go to the dude's site and look through his Washington photo gallery and read the captions on his photos. It's amazing he could be guide. As large as his ego is I'm surprised anybody else would fit in his boat.

Thank you for watching my back Mr. Stam, I always knew you were in my corner For the sake of reciprocity, can we free BigStick?

This post makes me wish we didn't have the internet. I miss the days when fishing was fishing, you did what you felt was right, and if poachers got caught, they got caught. This whole thread contains a truckload of hate being tossed around between people who would probably be good friends without the history. Let's fish. Remember, Karma will take care of people who do wrong.

Since when do people from Portland talk with southern accents? It's along the lines of Reckless Kelly trying to sound like they're from the south.

Pathetic.

Kyle, I miss it too, but aren't we sport anglers competing for a small piece of a dwindling resource?

Are there enough fish to sustain personal situational ethics?

Up and down the west coast of north america, the future that always seemed so far away, of so many fish gone from our rivers, perhaps permanently, is NOW (or 20 years ago depending on your perspective).

My step dad is going to an early grave, since they closed salmon fishing in CA.

Its the end of an era to many, and this one "fly guide" is feeling the anger, as he should.

Not "IF a poacher got caught", WHEN we witness wrong action, the responsibility is OURS to speak out. That's what the internets do for us.

DO THE RIGHT THING, PERIOD.

This IS "Karma". What, do you think some Deity is going to punish poachers? Nope, its US, NOW, applying corrective force to those who don't play by the rules.

Just like all the posts on "illegal fishing" (due to early closures), many murkily its feel its up to us to contribute to managing this precious (to us) resource.

Just like correcting tweakers who take my other stuff.

never seem someone pose so much with hatchery fish. this guy is a complete douche.....

If you check out his photo album you will learn that he added many of the boulders in the Kalama. This guy is amazing!

I like his quote on his page:

"How can you guide on
so many rivers?
I 'm Bad.
All the right stuff.
Knowledge.
Experience say it all.
Understanding fish and their
habits are very important to
catching fish. Also being
able to Read Water
and fish that water type
correctly make Todd one
Bad A$$ Angler.
Having the right equipment
for type of fishing enables
Todd to always produce"

Todd Snider is a Texas boy. The song was about visiting his mom.
Love Snider. Find the Front Porch Song. You'll like it.
Here it is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qvj-2moYZM
They way I heard it Robert Earl King, Todd Snider and Lyle Lovett were all buds or room mates in college.

This douche refers to himslef as the "Holy One".

"Trout fishing led him into a self proclaimed bass master "

man what a tool..... i sure wish i could have met the "holy one" in person.

I think the Holy one he is referring to is the Hoh.

Not that I would condone this, but has anyone checked out the "fly-only" steelhead boards to see if they have eaten one of their own yet, or do they even know?

Duly tarred and feathered

Not a big suprise that TWB got this this story from a local flyboard ~

Yes, and yes!